The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-30

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70 all Persons Who are Addicted to
the Opium or Morphine Habit.
| hereby certify that l have been
what is called morphine eater for
the last fifteen years. | contracted
the habit innocently, Gas | suppose
all morphine users do) commencing
its use to allay pain, not having the
remotest idea that ! was binding my.
self with chains more fearful than
those of the cobra orpython;yet such
was the fact When / realized that
l was rapidly drifting into the ranks of
confirmed opium eaters, 1t alarmed
me SO much that | determined to
abandon it, and dear reader, God
knows how faithfully ! tried every way
and every substitute that | could think
or hear of, but never with any success.
Oh, how | suffered both mentally and
physically! could not be contented
to yield the struggle and live and die
an opium user, and yet saw no way
of escape. | prayed God to deliver
me from the power Of the Vrant; |
tried various remedies and failed every
time, and had almost given up in dis.
pair. Oh, the indiscribable misery l
endured | took opium then, not for
the comfort it gave, but for its neces-
sity, Twas compelled to take it; | had
no alternative. The system demanded
it as an absolute necessity. | loathed
and hated my destroyer, but was nre-
sistibly drawn to it by a power that |
could not resist, and would have given
worlds, had they been mine, to be de-
livered from the power of the tyrant.
| had given up in dispair, not a single
ray of light irradiated my dark future.
How dark that time. / was almost
ready to give up life that had be-
come so miserable. While in this sad
state of mind and body, was visited
by kind gentleman, DR.. c. Long
who told me that he could cure me
| had no confidence in any treatment
had given up all hopes of ever being
released from the tolls of opium; tolc
him so, yet, after listening to him talk
on the gloomy subject awhile, l saw
that he knew all about opium and it,
: effects, and began to realize that pos
{ sibly there was a chance for even me
! felt, after hearing DR.. Long, encour
aged and almost happy at the though
that there might still he chance 70
me to be rescued. | agreed to b,
} treated by him, and in a short tim,
after first meeting him, l went to hi
office Cat Medina, Tenn and com
menced treatment, and am happy t,
say thatin three weeks from beginning
treatment was delivered from the fet
: tiers of the accused tyrant, opium;an,
e to-day, 1 am once more a free and hap
Ply woman, having promise in the If
that now is and that which is to come
| thank God that, through DR.. Long
e | am cured sound and well. Their
Y was no pain or real suffering durnl
nv course of treatment. | have n
wish for the dug now, no more tina
before l ever tasted it, and can an
do conscientiously say to every on
S who knows himself to be an opiur
4 eater and wishes to be cured quick
and easily that DR.. J. c. Long, of Me
dina, Tenn, by the use of DR.. Kelley
I Gold Cure added to and made nor
]. efficacious still by himself, can cur
e you in a short time and that withol
Is suffering on your part. ! will tax
! pleasure in answering any letter Of il
u quiry that may be addressed to nj
g l certainly need not urge upon anyon
= who is in the tolls of this tyrant t
is free himself, for it surely may be take
n for granted that every opium user
more anxious than any one else ca
Is possibly be to be free and happy
9r his restoration to life and Happiness
rs May all good gifts be multiplied
10 DR.. ]. C. Long in this life a hundr(
fold and eternal happiness hereaft
is the wish Of his grateful friend.
t. P, c. GLOSSON.
III Humboldt, Tenn, July Fl, 1857.
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